Existing home sales ()

Existing home median price ()

Housing Starts ()

New home sales ()

National economic indicators

Home ownership

3rd Qtr 10

66.9%

3rd Qtr 09

67.6%

The homeownership rate in the third quarter 2010 (66.9 percent) was lower than the third quarter 2009 rate (67.6 percent). In the South and West, the homeownership rates were lower than a year ago, while the Northeast and Midwest showed no significant change from corresponding third quarter 2009 rates.

New home sales

Oct 10

-8.1%

Sept 10

+12.0%

Sales of new one-family houses in October 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 283,000. This is 8.1 percent below the revised September 2010 estimate of 308,000.

Source: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

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